OUTLOOK
Subtropical high pressure will be the main weather driver the rest of this week into early next week. This high will lead to mostly dry conditions and gradually warming temps. An isolated shower along the NC/TN border cannot be ruled out today despite high pressure in place. High temps will be hot and well above average this weekend into early next week.
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Local News Update
(National News is published after the Macon Calendar section)
Here is a sneak peek at the budget work session of the Franklin Town Council for May 18th
Weather-related Video
May 18, 2021 LIVE Storm Chase near Gail, TX
The 2020 storm chasing season was a train wreck of uncertainty due to the pandemic, mishaps, and dismal, uncooperative weather. Events featured include:
March 28 - Illinois Moderate Risk and tornado warned supercells
April 12 - Mississippi Moderate Risk tornado outbreak and Brooksville, EF2
May 17 - Decatur, Illinois localized tornado event and chase mishap
May 23 - Northern Illinois tornadic supercells and Coleta, EF1
July 15 - Central Illinois tornadoes and Waverly, EF0 close encounter
Sources stats for cited stats: NOAA Storm Prediction Center and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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National Weather Map for Today
General forecast through Friday Night
Franklin area
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Light winds out of the southeast early increasing to 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
A 20 percent chance of rain before 9pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs near 80. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Calm winds.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-80s.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s.
Highlands area
Today
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
A 20 percent chance of showers before 9pm. Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with lows in the low-to-mid 50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with highs near 70. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid-50s.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-50s.
Otto area
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s. Light winds out of the southeast early increasing to 5 to 10 mph by midmorning.
Tonight
A 20 percent chance of rain before 10pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Thursday
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the lower 50s. Calm winds.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-50s.
Nantahala area
Today
Partly sunny, with highs in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight
A 20 percent chance of rain before 9pm. Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 70s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 50. Light winds out of the southeast.
Friday
Sunny, with highs near 80.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, with lows in the mid-50s.
HAZARDS
Hazardous weather is not expected today.
Air Quality
Air quality is in the lower range of yellow for most of the county, with the ridges and other higher elevations today being in the lower range of yellow.
Fire and Smoke Map
(There are no significant sources of smoke in the region as of 3am on 04-22-2021.)
Pollen
Pollen levels are expected to be in the medium-high range (7.4 out of 12) today with Birch, Hickory, and Maple being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the medium-range range (7.5 out of 12).
Weather Extremes for Macon County on May 19th
Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin in 1962
Lowest Temperature 29°F in Highlands in 1894
Greatest Rainfall 2.81 inches in Highlands in 1983
Greatest Snowfall (No snowfall recorded on this date since records started being kept in 1872)
May Weather Extremes for Macon County
Highest Temperature 92°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 05-20-1966
Lowest Temperature 23°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 05-02-1963
Greatest Rainfall 5.97 inches in Highlands on 05-30-2018
Greatest Snowfall 2.5 inches in Highlands on 05-07-1992
Level1 Tech News for May 18th
On This Day
May 19 is the 139th day of the year (140th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 226 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
639 – Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Emperor Taizong at Jiucheng Palace.
715 – Pope Gregory II is elected.
1051 – Henry I of France marries the Rus' princess, Anne of Kiev.
1182 - The high altar of Paris cathedral Notre Dame is consecrated by Cardinal Henri de Château-Marçay and Maurice de Sully
1445 – John II of Castile defeats the Infantes of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo.
1499 – Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.
1506 - Christopher Columbus selects his son Diego Columbus as sole heir
1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).
1536 – Anne Boleyn, second wife of English King Henry VIII, is beheaded at the Tower of London on charges of adultery, incest and treason
1542 – The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Myanmar.
1568 – Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
1643 – Thirty Years' War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power.
1649 – An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
1655 – The Invasion of Jamaica begins during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1743 – Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale.
1749 – King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
1780 – New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky, was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada.
1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
1828 – U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
1845 – Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
1848 – Mexican–American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million.
1911 – Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
1917 – The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
1919 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
1921 – The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
1922 – The Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union is established.
1934 – Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
1942 – World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor.
1950 – A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
1950 – Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce.
1959 – The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
1961 – Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
1961 – At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
1962 – A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday".
1963 – The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
1971 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
1986 – The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1991 – Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.
1993 – SAM Colombia Flight 501 crashes on approach to José María Córdova International Airport in Medellín, Colombia, killing 132.
1996 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on mission STS-77.
1997 – The Sierra Gorda biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is established as a result of grassroots efforts
2000 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-101 to resupply the International Space Station.
2007 – President of Romania Traian Băsescu survives an impeachment referendum and returns to office from suspension.
2010 – The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.
2012 – Three gas cylinder bombs explode in front of a vocational school in the Italian city of Brindisi, killing one person and injuring five others.
2012 – A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing nine people.
2015 – The Refugio oil spill deposited 142,800 U.S. gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto an area in California considered one of the most biologically diverse coastlines of the west coast.
2015 - Historic first handshake between Prince Charles and Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams at the National University of Ireland in Galway
2016 – EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while traveling from Paris to Cairo, killing all on board.
2018 – The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is held at St George's Chapel, Windsor, with an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion.
2018 - Queen Elizabeth II grants the titles of Duke and Duchess of Sussex to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle upon their marriage
2020 - Greenhouse gas emissions dropped 17% worldwide in April 2020 when world was in lockdown, in study published in "Nature Climate Change"
2020 - Two dams on Tittabawassee River in central Michigan breached by floodwaters, forcing evacuation of thousands of residents
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Published at 4:00am on Wednesday, May 19, 2021
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